Mountains and forests

Silvano Frei, M.A.
Junior Research Fellow

Silvano Frei was born in 1996 in Flawil (SG). He studied cultural studies with a focus on philosophy at the University of Lucerne. In his master's thesis, he focused on the European Décadence as a central intellectual-historical topos of cultural and aesthetic modernity.
With the start-up scholarship of the University of Lucerne (since 1.10.2023) he prepares his PhD project.

Project

Shipwreck in the Alps. Failure as a Motif of Literary Depictions of the Alps in the 20th and 21st Centuries.